Perched behind his Hammond organ, Allman told the audience: “What a great bunch we got here. I should get back to Detroit more often.”

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Allman’s first solo album, “Laid Back,” is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and he explored it in depth on Wednesday. “Midnight Rider," highlighted by a flute solo, was followed by the Jackson Browne cover “These Days." “Queen of Hearts" featured a sweeping solo by saxophonist Jay Collins.

The Southern rocker dusted off his 1986 comeback hit, “I’m No Angel,” for the second song in the set, still hitting the notes with his bluesy, melodic voice. The sound at the 1,500-seat Sound Board was notably clear for Allman and opener Laith Al-Saadi’s sets, and the right volume: Loud enough, but no earplugs required.

“Make all the noise you want to. Get up and dance,” Allman told the crowd before playing 1988’s “Just Before the Bullets Fly.”

Allman is more visible than he has been in years, releasing a T. Bone Burnett-produced solo album, “Low Country Blues,” in 2011 and his autobiography the following year. Allman played “I Can’t Be Satisfied” from that most recent disc, as well as “Tears, Tears, Tears" and others.

Opening act Al-Saadi received a warm reception from the audience, playing a rootsy acoustic set that included familiar tracks such as The Band’s “Ophelia.”

When Allman played “Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More,” from the 1972 Allman Brothers Band LP “Eat a Peach,” he sang, “Time goes by like a hurricane.” The lyric seems fitting for a musician who has survived tragedy through the deaths of brother Duane Allman and bandmate Berry Oakley, as well as decades of drug abuse, and come out on the other end with his talent and spirit intact.

Standing in line before the show, one fan from Oakland County said she’d seen Allman many times with a friend who’s now passed, and came on Wednesday to honor their memory.